ESPN giddy about College World Series ratings

ESPN, which has televised baseball’s College World Series for all 30 years of the network’s existence, reports that the 11-day session that just ended in Omaha was the most-viewed and highest-rated in its history.

The network averaged a 1.5 rating, representing 1.45 million households and 1.928 million viewers. That’s a 36 percent rise in rating from last year (1.1).

The three-game championship series, helped by an extraordinarily light Major League Baseball schedule, got a 2.1 rating, the highest since the CWS changed to its best-of-3 format in 2003. The rating number was 24 percent higher than last year (1.7).